That's the change you voted for no?
Depends how you define "you", I guess. Not sure what your point is, though.
That's the change you voted for no?
In a time of peace, with peaceful nations, I wouldn't really care. Frolic, do business, be merry.Your Personal Views on Foreign Ownership of US firms and property?
Stop giving tories chances to fuck the people over?Depends how you define "you", I guess. Not sure what your point is, though.
You forgot infrastructure, many roads, especially in Texas are foreign owned and operated.Spanish utility Iberdrola offers to buy remaining shares to take 100% ownership of Avangrid
Spanish utility Iberdrola is proposing to buy out the shares it doesn’t control in Central Maine Power’s parent company for about $2.5 billion.
I'm generally opposed to foreign ownership of media, utilities, banks and large blocks of real estate.
There's also the Saudi land issue in AZ and Chinese land deals around military bases among a number of other things.
I think there are some things that are too critical for foreign ownership, similar to our ITAR rules. Infrastructure, mines of strategic materials, etc. I don't love foreign investment in housing, but as long as its occupied, then it probably doesn't matter. Other than that, I don't think foreign investment is a big deal. The US owns a lot all over the world tooSo is it a problem that I as a Dane (or a Danish capital fund) can invest in a US company or vice versa?
I don't believe so.
There is a problem if the investor is a state and especially a totalitarian one. So I can understand the wish to limit investment from Chinese or companies situated in other totalitarian countries, as they can easily be considered to be part of a political agenda.
Have you stopped to consider the massive economic ties is what has kept the peace so far? I'm sure in a direct war we'd either seize or freeze their ownership.In a time of peace, with peaceful nations, I wouldn't really care. Frolic, do business, be merry.
But as of 2022 we have entered a time of great blood shedding. Most of the killing hasn't even occurred yet.
One of the nations buying up a lot of our land, has already vowed to engage in war and killing to erase (cause Genocide) the people of Taiwan.
Given their promise of violence, we must divest and remove them from any and all leverage over us.
Have you stopped to consider the massive economic ties is what has kept the peace so far?
MAD helps too. And while we do have the rivalries and nationalism we've always had, we haven't had the major wars that we've always have.To a degree, perhaps. Much more the case for China than Russia. Surely in the latter case what's kept the peace so far is fear of mutual nuclear destruction?
Just seems like we're in a paradoxical situation - we have all the economic interdependence of the current era, and yet we still have the Great Power rivalries and nationalism that we've always had.
MAD helps too. And while we do have the rivalries and nationalism we've always had, we haven't had the major wars that we've always have.
I think Russia severely under estimated the economic penalties of attacking Ukraine, likely because they had gotten away with so much previously.
The company I work for "owns" a facility in China. Of course one worry is that the Chinese will just take it under the guise of some state security or something. I suppose the US could do the same if it became a problem. But generally I am not a big fan of foreign ownership of our sovereign soil.
What difference does it make whether Fox is owned by Aussies or Americans? Shit is still shit regardless of ownership.
Substitute Murdoch with Koch or Phony Stark, the result is the same.
I worked for a company several years ago, where the FBI showed up to give us a ridiculous presentation (seriously was up there with the "you wouldn't download a car" shit that they put during movie previews; only it was like a whole mini-series complete with racist Chinese caricatures) that basically boiled down to "if you see an Asian person, call the police". They were going around to corporations in the Midwest, because I believe Ball (the glass jar manufacturer) had some Chinese people show up and access their facilities (with very vague claims of what they even did, but scaremongering that it cost the company like $100million). I'm not sure if they were aware the company they were giving the presentation to had an office in China.
By that same token what difference does it make if social media company is in cahoots with American or Chinese intelligence services, they're both spying on US citizens and doing dirty shit with the information. Hell, if you're a foreign power you can access the information that American social media companies are selling as the Cambridge Analytica situation showed.
I'm fine with making social media companies having to comply with privacy guards. That should apply just as much to American companies though.
I worked for a company several years ago, where the FBI showed up to give us a ridiculous presentation (seriously was up there with the "you wouldn't download a car" shit that they put during movie previews; only it was like a whole mini-series complete with racist Chinese caricatures) that basically boiled down to "if you see an Asian person, call the police". They were going around to corporations in the Midwest, because I believe Ball (the glass jar manufacturer) had some Chinese people show up and access their facilities (with very vague claims of what they even did, but scaremongering that it cost the company like $100million). I'm not sure if they were aware the company they were giving the presentation to had an office in China.
By that same token what difference does it make if social media company is in cahoots with American or Chinese intelligence services, they're both spying on US citizens and doing dirty shit with the information. Hell, if you're a foreign power you can access the information that American social media companies are selling as the Cambridge Analytica situation showed.
I'm fine with making social media companies having to comply with privacy guards. That should apply just as much to American companies though.
Russia sacrificed all ties for its own manifest destiny.Have you stopped to consider the massive economic ties is what has kept the peace so far? I'm sure in a direct war we'd either seize or freeze their ownership.
China seems a little more concerned about their populous than Russia. That said, I think Putin didn't think he'd actually face the economic consequences he did. I think it was a miscalculation, and also a massive warning to China.Russia sacrificed all ties for its own manifest destiny.
Germany / Europe's whole idea of peace and defense regarding Russia... was economics. Make them value money over killing people.
Turns out, humans will still choose killing over making money. After all, you can loot the dead and exploit their land. You can send undesirables in meat waves and cleanse your own prisons. Win/win/win far as the enemy is concerned.
I will not expect behavior any different from anyone else. Economics will not hold humanity at bay. Besides, you can still trade and limit foreign ownership from hostile nations.
Stupid. Free speech anyone?House just passed bill to force ByteDance to sell TikTok to American company or ban app. Obviously not a done deal since it still has to go through the senate.
Stupid. Free speech anyone?
Does free speech apply to enemy state operating in the USA?Stupid. Free speech anyone?
Does free speech apply to enemy state operating in the USA?